Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-16
G MISCELLANY.

The First Montana Rifles meeS sn's
fne for drill and muster. -n
The Granite street bridge was tcIn mi.
yesterday, and Will De IeplAcou
vert and the gulch filed up -. =,
Schussler has received anotner in W ans.
tho Warren Speckled cigar ana n'e euH
TONERS will be able TO supply O"
| wholesale or retail.
snec;mens of ore found in boring the 1un-
mol east of Meaderville show up we'll IN OK.
;des of copper and o blue silver rock WIN
| chlorides of silver.
The Pacific Express Company ye s.eI et
ahinned nineteen bars OF Alice. valued Nv
| about s25. 900, and ten bars OF M0uiton ,
I valued at about $4,000.
Tom Nutwell and q friend were thrown
| out of q rig a little east Of Silver Bow yes
dav nv the horse stumbling, n the buggy
wal damaged considerably.
r. Fred Whey, Of Butte, has been eiected
! Vice President of the Hotel Mems Mutaal
| Reneit Association of the United States
for the department of Montana.
The American Institute OF Mining Engi-
neers will to-day visit the Lexington, the
Alice, the Blue Bird mines and mills and
the Colorado Smelter and Concentration.
The Washington Guards have courte'
ously postponed their drill to Friday even
ing, to give way to the Board VI Trade
banquet to the visiting engineers. -,
The members of the Butte Board OF
Trade are notified by the Secretary TO az
| tend the banquet to the mining engineers
without formal invitations to do so.
One of the notable features OF the Grand
| Opera House new orchestra is the xylo-
| phone solo with which George Horn be-
euiles the eutr'acte. He is an old member
/ of the G. A. r.
A fishing party. consisting OF Tom Harms
| and q few friends. went to the Big Hole on
Sunday, and returned with a couple Of
hundredweisht of fish. The Indians in the
neighborhood are good fishermen, and are
| always ready to dispose of their catch to
purchasers.
Yesterday evening, about 6 o'clock, the
roof OF the boarding house kept by Mrs.
Stewart, on West Quartz, in the rear Of
Lynch's saloon, caught fire and burned a
little alongside of the kitchen stovepipe.
Neighbors extinguished it with ole bucket
and a dipper.
The members of the A. M. E. Church will
hold a jug.breaking entertainment at Good
Templar Hall this evening. The admit.
tance will be fifty cents. A few members oil
the congregation make collections in closed
jugs, which are broken in the presence OF
the audience on the evening of the enter
tainment and the contents counted.
Chris. Dellen has made arrangements by
which expresses will, in future, run between
the city and Columbia Gardens for 25
cents a trip, Signs will be pnt on the
wagons that have agreed to take this fare.
He will be prepared to accommodate picnic
parties at equally low rates, and should
be seen in person by those who want to get
this low rate.
Leopold F. Schmidt, Ben Schlegel and
Arthur O'Neil left yesterday morning fol-
Helena going overland. They will stop on
the way and have some shooting and fish.
ing. Lippincott and Dewitt will hide their
diminished heads when the others get back
and begin to tell some of the grandly
picturesque lies they will hatch up between
now and then of the hauls they made.
The fire brigade boys. under direction oil
City Engineer Harper, made q test of the
endurance of the reservoir from the plug at
the corner of Montana and Park streets
last night. As on the previous occasion, a
3X-inch nozzle was run for ten minutes,
and q 3R-inch nozzle was tested for a SINH
lar length of time, but the effect on the res.
ervoir could lot be ascertained last night
Phil Shenon, formerly of Bannack. now
OF Junction, Idaho, called at The MINER
Office yesterday. He speak. very encour.
agingly of Bannack, which, is at present
held back by the litigation between the
California company and himself. The
property assold under a mortgage and
Mr.. Shenon bought it in and as soon as
the limitation for redemption expires
will put a force of men at work.
On Sunday next a race will occur at Phil
ipsburg between Jack Dowd, owned by Col.
J. c.. C. Thornton. of this city, and
Turner, owned by a Philipsburg man. This
ace is creating a great deal of interest
there and here. The stakes are So, 500 a
size. Several parties have gone over there
from here to be present at the race. The
local feeling is Intense, one rancher having
put no his herd against $1,000 on the
Philipsburg favorite.
B. F. Gatherings. the efficient Superintend-
emit of the Colorado Fluming Company,
was a guest of the city on yesterday. Be-
ing interviewed by The MINER, be was
moved to admit hat the Colorado fume
has a capacity of $500 cords per day
when running; that it was the pioneer
fluming company of the Territory. The
main line and branches consist of twenty
miles of lume, which is operated mainly
in the spring, when there is a pure and free
flow of water.